The #SOLO11 Conference As I mentioned in yesterday’s post on Use of Twitter at the SOLO11 Conference on Friday and Saturday, 2-3 September 2011 I attended the Science Online London 2011 event, SOLO11. We are now starting to see various posts on the event being...

In this guest post, event amplifier Kirsty Pitkin reports on the key messages from the recent UKOLNeim workshop – Metrics and Social Web Services: Quantitative Evidence for their Use and Impact. Introduction In introducing the event, Brian Kelly emphasised that...

Supporting a Remote Audience On Monday 11th July I am facilitating a one-day workshop on “Metrics and Social Web Services: Quantitative Evidence for their Use & Impact” which will be held at the Open University. There has been a lot of interest in...

Tomorrow I am giving an invited presentation on “Metrics for Understanding Personal and Institutional Use of the Social Web” at a workshop 0n “Digital Impacts: How to Measure and Understand the Usage and Impact of Digital Content” which is...

“Measuring Impact” is the theme of the December 2010 issue of CILIP’s Library and Information Update magazine. In an editorial piece entitled “Capturing Numeric Data to Makes an Evidence Based Approach” Elspeth Hyams provides a shocking...

Metrics For Measuring Impact in the Social Web Martin Weller has published a blog post on Connections versus Outputs which discusses a report produced by the Open University Online Services team in collaboration with external consultants (MarketSentinel). The aim of...